Careers
Exceedra are a fast paced, dynamic software company, disrupting the Integrated Business Planning and Revenue Management Software market. Our software enables consumer goods organizations to maximize their revenues and have clearer visibility of their Trade Spend ROI. Our solutions focus on empowering user experience through simplicity, presenting a complex business process in an easy to use tool.
We have a diverse, sociable team, that work hard and are extremely knowledgeable in their respective fields. We promote discussion and like our employees to always feel heard. We encourage both internal training and external courses so our team feel they are continuously learning, no matter what stage they are at in their career.
EXCEEDRA CAREER OPPORTUNITIES
Please Note: We do not require assistance from any recruitment agencies.
PRODUCT TEAM, DELIVERY MANAGER - LONDON, UK
Project Manager
What’s The Opportunity?
We’re looking for a Delivery Manager for our Product Team to lead our team of talented Technical Consultants. Your team is responsible for New Development, Product Support, Sales Cycle Support and Infrastructure and you’ll be responsible for planning and coordinating the output for each of these areas.
You’ll be second in command to our Head of Database for Product Development and will be one of the key liaisons between the UK and US based Project Delivery Teams and Leadership Team at Exceedra.
Who Are We Looking For?
First and foremost, you’ll be a great People Manager and know how to get the most out of people through a focused yet friendly approach. Holding people accountable for their performance is something you do regularly and you know how to distribute work fairly during times of enhanced activity.
Secondly, you’ll be a whizz at project management. Being fully responsible for the creation and execution of project roadmaps is like breathing to you. You know how to use your resource effectively to get the job done and you’ve got experience of deliver major projects to the right quality, at the right time before.
Lastly, you’ll be a great communicator and creating a collaborative culture both inside the team and with internal stakeholders is second nature to you. You know how to manage expectations, escalating where necessary, and keep things sweet for the people that matter – which is everyone!
Ideally, you’ll have 3 or more years in a similar role with a technology business and experience with Jira is highly desirable.
What’s In It For You?
- Competitive salary based on experience
- 5% bonus dependent on business performance and achievement of personal objectives
- 25 days annual leave in addition to bank holidays
- Your choice of a desktop or laptop based on your personal preference
- Weekly fruit boxes and access to a well-stocked office drinks fridge
- Cycle to Work Scheme
- The option to work from home one day a week after a year’s service
- A true work hard / play hard culture and a great working environment
- Working for Exceedra HQ in one of London’s landmark buildings, China Works
- The opportunity to progress and have a global career within our fast-growing business
What Happens When You Apply?
Our business is growing – and fast – so we’ll be reviewing applications as they come in. If we like what we see we’ll be in touch to arrange a video call to get to know more about you, your experience and your motivation for applying. Following that we’ll arrange a face-to-face interview with our Head of Database for Product Development, Brendan Roberts, at our offices in Vauxhall.
PROJECT MANAGER - LONDON, UK
Project Manager
What’s The Opportunity?
At Exceedra we’re on a mission to help clients make better trade budget decisions through our Integrated Business Planning Solutions. We simplify complex business processes through our award-winning tool and are looking for an experienced Project Manager to support our UK and APAC growth. You’ll be a core liaison between our clients and internal teams and will be accountable for delivering projects on time.
Who Are We Looking For?
Ultimately you’ll be a project management expert who uses best practice principles to take software deployment projects from A – Z. You take a continuous improvement approach to work and once you’ve understood the lay of the land will propose, agree and implement changes that enhance efficiency.
Interacting with C Suite Execs is second nature to you and you’ll have been the point person for highly complex software development projects in your current or previous roles. Experience within Consumer Goods, Manufacturing and / or Retail is essential so you have first hand knowledge of our client’s businesses.
Through your experience you’ll know that business, and client, requirements / needs can change. As a skilled communicator you rally the troops by relaying this information in a positive and pragmatic way ensuring internal teams are clear on expectations and know what to do and by when. You’ll manage upwards to the senior leadership team to keep them informed of progress / risks and influence timely decision-making.
You’ll have a project management qualification, such as Prince 2, and familiarity with Microsoft Team Foundation Server 2013 and Agile / Scrum processes will tick a few key boxes for us.
What’s In It For You?
- Competitive salary based on experience
- 5% bonus dependent on business performance and achievement of personal objectives
- 25 days annual leave in addition to bank holidays
- Weekly fruit boxes and access to a well-stocked office drinks fridge
- Cycle to Work Scheme
- Your choice of a desktop or laptop based on your personal preference
- The option to work from home one day a week after a years’ service
- A true work hard/play hard culture and a great working environment
- Working for Exceedra HQ in one of London’s landmark buildings, China Works
- International travel, as required, to support current and prospective clients
- The opportunity to progress and have a global career within our fast-growing business
What Happens When You Apply?
Our business is growing – and fast – so we’ll be reviewing applications as they come in. If we like what we see we’ll be in touch to arrange a video call to get to know more about you, your experience and your motivation for applying. Following that we’ll arrange a face-to-face interview with our Commercial Director, Michael Creasey, at our offices in Vauxhall.
TECHNICAL CONSULTANT - LONDON, UK
Technical Consultant
What’s The Opportunity?
At Exceedra we’re on a mission to help clients make better trade budget decisions through our Integrated Business Planning Solutions. We simplify complex business processes through our award-winning tools and require a Technical Consultant to be responsible for all aspects of technical delivery of Exceedra Sales Planner. This involves database configuration, customization, ETL development using BIML and SISS, reporting in SSAS, PowerBI and in-house Canvas technology.
Who Are We Looking For?
Ideally, you’ll have 1 – 2 years database development using SQL Server stack 2012, or above, and will be proficient in TSQL, SSAS and SSIS. You can demonstrate experience with the majority of SQL technologies including:
- Creation of complex stored procedures involving CTE’s, explicit transactions, shredding and creation of XML and exception handling
- Database backed N-tier applications
- Kimball methodologies for Data Warehousing
- Working the data sets on the order of millions of rows
- Query performance tuning for large datasets
- ETL from flat-file and we-service XML sources
- Using BIML for creation of SISS packages
You’ll be someone who is looking for an intellectual challenge and is passionate about what they do. By having a developer’s mindset, you look for opportunities to increase and use your knowledge to enhance our product. You’re highly autonomous and hold yourself accountable for achieving results for our clients.
What’s In It For You?
- Competitive salary based on experience
- 5% bonus dependent on business performance and achievement of personal objectives
- 25 days annual leave in addition to bank holidays
- Your choice of a desktop or laptop based on your personal preference
- Weekly fruit boxes and access to a well-stocked office drinks fridge
- Cycle to Work Scheme
- The option to work hard/play hard culture and a great working environment
- The opportunity to progress and have a global career within our fast-growing business
What Happens When You Apply?
Our business is growing – and fast – so we’ll be reviewing applications as they come in. If we like what we see we’ll be in touch to arrange a video call to get to know more about you, your experience and your motivation for applying. Following that we’ll send you a tech test to complete and, if it’s all gravy, we’ll arrange a face-to-face interview with our Head of Database for Product Development, Brendan Roberts, at our offices in Vauxhall.
ENGAGEMENT CONSULTANT - LONDON, UK
Engagement Consultant
What’s The Opportunity?
We’re looking for an Engagement Consultant to support our UK growth. You’ll play a key role in developing and maintaining client relationships, supporting the deployment of software and mitigating risks in client projects.
Who Are We Looking For?
Our clients look to us to enhance their business processes and, alongside the product team, you’ll own their full experience. We’re looking for candidates who have at least 2 – 3 years experience within Finance, Supply Chain and / or Sales within FMCG but if you’re a Management Consultant in our space we’d be interested in hearing from you too.
You’re keen to learn, pick things up quickly and are not afraid to share your thoughts / ideas if you think there is a better way of doing something. You’ll be someone who loves spinning a few different plates at once and through strong organisational skills thinks ahead to ensure they all keep spinning.
We’d love it if you have a good understanding of technical concepts through having supported the deployment of Enterprise software however, if you’re a quick study this works for us too. You’re happy to follow internal processes and, once you’ve got your feet under the table, take the lead on enhancing these where you can.
You understand that business requirements can change and are adaptable keeping the needs of the business, and our clients, in mind. Ultimately, clients love working with you due to your excellent communication skills, personable nature and ability to get the job done.
What’s In It For You?
- Competitive salary based on experience
- 5% bonus dependent on business performance and achievement of personal objectives
- 25 days annual leave in addition to bank holidays
- Weekly fruit boxes and access to a well-stocked office drinks fridge
- Cycle to Work Scheme
- Your choice of a desktop or laptop based on your personal preference
- The option to work from home one day a week after a years’ service
- A true work hard/play hard culture and a great working environment
- International travel, as required, to support current and prospective clients
- The opportunity to drive your personal development and have a global career within our fast-growing business
What Happens When You Apply?
Our business is growing – and fast – so we’ll be reviewing applications as they come in. If we like what we see we’ll be in touch to arrange a video call to get to know more about you, your experience and your motivation for applying. Following that we’ll arrange a face-to-face interview with our Commercial Director, Michael Creasey, at our offices in Vauxhall.
LEAD ENGAGEMENT CONSULTANT - LONDON, UK
Lead Engagement Consultant
What’s The Opportunity?
We’re looking for a Lead Engagement Consultant to play a leading role in our growth and global expansion. The role is accountable for the end to end responsibility of implementation of the Exceedra software solution and ensuring our Engagement consulting team are at the top of their game. Working alongside project managers and solution configurators, you will manage design workshops where you’ll guide clients through process and solution design, and will oversee the build whilst ensuring alignment to the client’s requirements. You’ll be involved in testing and final system acceptance, including business case validation.
Once you have proved your capability in deploying our software you will start to influence and implement the strategy and product. You’ll also be accountable for building, leading and developing a team of Engagement Consultants so we can continue to deliver in line with our growth.
Who Are We Looking For?
Our clients look to us to enhance their business processes and you’ll own their full experience. As such, we’re looking for candidates who have progressive experience within Finance, Revenue Management, Trade Promotions, Demand Planning, Supply Chain and / or Sales within Consumer Goods, but if you’re an experienced Management Consultant, with experience of our space, we’d be interested in hearing from you too.
You’ll have comprehensive experience of Trade Promotional Management (TPM), Trade Promotional Optimisation (TPO) or Integrated Business Planning concepts and will have managed, or have been heavily involved with, Package Software Implementations. Having technical knowledge is an absolute must as you’ll be actively involved in influencing our product through our steering committee and will work closely with our Product Team on deployment.
Building relationships in a consultative, credible manner and holding a room / liaising with C Suite Execs will be second nature to you. Among your many skills, attention to detail, exceptional organisation and a strong self-starting approach feature highly. You’ll be someone who leads from the front and gets great satisfaction from delivering successful, value add projects, on time for your clients / stakeholders.
What’s In It For You?
- Competitive salary based on experience
- Annual bonus based on business performance and achievement of personal objectives
- Car Allowance
- 25 days annual leave in addition to bank holidays
- A true work hard / play hard culture and a great working environment
- International travel, as required, to support current and prospective clients
- The opportunity to drive your personal development and have a global career within our fast-growing business
- Weekly fruit boxes and access to a well-stocked office drinks fridge
- Cycle to Work Scheme
- Your choice of a desktop or laptop based on your personal preference
- The option to work from home one day a week after a years’ service
What Happens When You Apply?
Our business is growing – and fast – so we’ll be reviewing applications as they come in. If we like what we see we’ll be in touch to arrange a video call to get to know more about you, your experience and your motivation for applying. Following that we’ll arrange a face-to-face interview with our Commercial Director, Michael Creasey, at our offices in Vauxhall.
PRODUCT SUPPORT TEAM, DATABASE DEVELOPER - LONDON, UK
Product Support Team – Database Developer
Role Description:
Exceedra has a database-backed B2B application that is packaged and delivered to tens of clients, often with some customisation. Exceedra is seeking an experienced database developer to own the Product Support function. The role is hands-on with the developer being responsible for the resolution of all defects raised against the database part of the Exceedra application.
Candidate Description
Candidates in the first instance should be technically strong, with multiple examples of working on significant database projects.
Desirable experience includes:
- 3+ years database development using SQL Server stack – at least 2008 R2, preferably 2012/2014.
- Demonstrable experience with most of the following
– Creation of complex Stored Procedures
– Database-backed N-tier applications
– Kimball methodologies for Data Warehousing
– Query performance tuning for large datasets
– Advanced concepts such as CTEs, Analytic functions and Exception handling - Experience of working on OLTP applications using the Microsoft SQL Server suite, rather than pure BI or ETL experience
What You Can Expect:
Exceedra works to monthly sprints. You will plan what occurs in a sprint using a Kanban-board. Our environment is best suited to results-focused self-starters, who are used to working independently and having the freedom to act under their own initiative. All our software is developed in-house by our London-based Product team so you can expect a convivial atmosphere.
As a software vendor, the quality of the software created by employees has significant financial and reputational implications. As such, we are dedicated to building software well. All code is maintained in Visual Studio Online for source code control and we use Continuous Integration (gated check-ins) to maintain the integrity of our code. A comprehensive suite of automated regression testing and a Continuous Deployment capability are our next big milestones.
Culturally, we care about our customers and our people. We have long-standing relationships with our customers and it’s important our solution meets their needs and gives them an excellent end-user experience. Our people are the way we achieve that. As part of looking after our people we have non-financial benefits including a Cycle to Work scheme, your choice of laptop or desktop, the ability to remote work one day a week after a year of service, weekly fruit boxes in the office to help you get your 5 a day, drinks regularly stocked in the fridge, office foosball competitions, and fun events to get to know the team – ask us about Challenge Wednesday and the Office Christmas Quiz!
Role Responsibilities:
- Understand the Exceedra technology stack from both a technical and business perspective.
- Use analytical, problem solving and engineering skills to resolve issues in the code for the Exceedra database.
- Work with the Delivery Manager to manage the lifecycle of all issues in the Product Support queue.
- Follow internal processes, methodology and best practices, contributing to their continued evolution.
- Develop your own skillset on relevant areas of the SQL Server stack.
- Be responsible for meeting Product Support SLAs, and providing a high quality of service to internal end users, as measured by end user satisfaction.
- Liaise directly with stakeholders and other team members to ensure correct completion of support tasks.
Location: Vauxhall, London.
Package:
- Market competitive base salary
- Annual bonus of up to 5%, dependent on company target and personal objectives.
- Company pension contribution of 1%.
- 25 days holiday a year.
Hours: Standard office hours are 9.00am – 5.30 pm plus extra hours when needed.
How to apply: To apply for this role please submit your CV and a cover letter to [email protected]
SQL DEVELOPER - CHARLOTTE, NORTH CAROLINA
SQL Developer
Job Description
Exceedra is seeking SQL Developers who have created robust and scalable OLTP or Data Warehouse solutions.
Candidates should have multi-year experience in both TSQL and Stored Procedures. While experience in either SSIS or SSAS is an advantage, cross-training in relevant BI technologies will be available for successful candidates from a pure OLTP background.
SQL Developers will own significant portions of projects spanning multiple clients. This will include discussing and agreeing requirements before designing and implementing solutions using the SQL Server stack, ensuring high quality standards are achieved throughout.
They will report directly to the Technical Principal (EMEA), and be supported by both Senior and Lead SQL Developers.
Role Responsibilities:
- Use analytical, problem solving and engineering skills to deliver solutions built upon Exceedra’s award-winning technology stack.
- Own significant parts of client implementations, and ensure their high quality.
- Proactively identify risks to implementations, suggesting appropriate remedial actions.
- Follow internal processes, methodology and best practices, contributing to their continued evolution.
- Understand the Exceedra technology stack from both a technical and business perspective.
- Develop and enhance your skillset with the SQL Server stack.
- Liaise directly with Project Manager and other team members to ensure a common understanding of task progress.
Skills and Experience Required:
- 3+ years database development using SQL Server stack – at least SS 2008 R2, preferably 2012/2014.
- Proficient in TSQL and Stored Procedures.
- Familiarity with formal project processes.
Demonstrable experience with the majority of the following
- Creation of complex Stored Procedures
- Database-backed web applications
- Working with large data sets
- Advanced concepts such as CTEs, Analytic functions and Exception handling
- ETL from flat-file sources
Locations: North Carolina
Package: Package Competitive
Hours: Standard office hours are 9.00am – 5.30 pm plus extra hours when needed.
GRADUATES |
Exceedra has a roster rich with industry experts. But we know that every expert started out as a young graduate with more raw talent than proven experience. We also know that talented graduates tend to be ripe with fresh ideas and new perspectives that can complement and enhance the strategies of those who are currently leading the industry. It is because of this that we seek out new graduates who have distinguished themselves academically. We think you have alot to offer and we are committed to providing and environment where you will be able to thrive. Our employees are not simply numbers to us. By joining Exceedra, you will be building your career in an atmosphere where your individual goals and aspirations will be given an opportunity to expand. |